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  4. Ask HN: How would you build a buzz-wire game, without electronics?

    I'm thinking of this primarily as a Gedankenexperiment, but also as a practical idea for a game that could live outside in the (English) rain!

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  5. Show HN: An SSEM (Manchester Baby) emulator written in 100 lines of JavaScript (github.com)
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  6. Ask HN: What to do with text from old, unarchived, online forums?

    I have a stack of printouts of various discussion forums from between 1991-4. Mostly chatter, but several interview transcriptions, news reports, and magazine articles that no longer appear to be online. They vary from…

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  7. Show HN: Emulator for the Manchester Baby (em.ulat.es)

    Apparently, the first computer with a stored program. But what else can I do with it?

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  12. Ask HN: The Sinclair Spectrum is 40 – do you have one?

    It's the 40th anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum on Saturday. What did you do program with it? Best games? (Or do you have any other stories to share that I might include in my #RetroComputing book, "20 GOTO 10"?)…

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  13. Show HN: Writing a film score with one monophonic synthesizer

    I decided to write a film score. I decided to use one synthesizer. The synthesizer in question can play only one note at a time. This is the result... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFq7XpFmYo4

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  14. Writing a film score with one monophonic synthesizer

    I decided to write a film score. I decided to use one synthesizer. The synthesizer in question can play only one note at a time. This is the result... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFq7XpFmYo4

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  15. Ask HN: What numbers do you associate with old computers?

    I'm writing a book on retro computers and the numbers that tie them together. (Full blurb and example prose at https://unbound.com/books/20goto10/) What are the ultimately geeky, deep knowledge numbers, that aren't as…

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